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Boston schools chair resigns over racially charged texts
AP ^ | June 8, 2021 | By STEVE LeBLANC

Posted on 06/11/2021 4:03:32 AM PDT by 11th_VA

BOSTON (AP) — The chair of the Boston School Committee resigned Monday amid criticism of racially charged texts she shared with another member of the committee disparaging families of students, city officials announced Tuesday.

The texts were sent during a committee meeting last October as the board was considering a proposal to temporarily drop the entrance test requirement to the city’s exam schools.

“Best school committee meeting ever. I’m trying not to cry,” school committee Chair Alexandra Oliver-Davila texted to fellow committee member Lorna Rivera, according to the texts obtained by the Boston Globe.

“Wait until the white racists start yelling at us,” Rivera texted back. “Whatever. They’re delusional,” texted Oliver-Davila. “I hate WR,” she texted Rivera again, a reference to the city’s West Roxbury neighborhood.

“Sick of Westie whites,” Rivera replied. “Me too. I really feel like saying that,” Oliver-Davila texted.

In her resignation letter, Oliver-Davila apologized for the texts and the hurt they caused.

“I regret my personal texts, it was inappropriate,” she wrote. “But I am not ashamed of the feelings from history that made me write those words.”

Oliver-Davila cast the comments in the context of her personal history growing up in a city where she said was ostracized and teased, called racial slurs, spat on, and faced physical threats of violence.

During the meeting, Oliver-Davila said she felt transported to her youth as members of the public delivered testimony that she said at times was racist in nature...

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts
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Remember, oppressed people cannot be racist ...
1 posted on 06/11/2021 4:03:32 AM PDT by 11th_VA
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To: 11th_VA

Well, lookee here. Those board members are appointed, not elected...

https://www.boston.gov/boston-school-committee


2 posted on 06/11/2021 4:06:27 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: 11th_VA

“Alexandra Oliver-Davila”

Now we’re taking lip from imported braceros?


3 posted on 06/11/2021 4:07:06 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: 11th_VA

CRT = Communist Revolution Tactic


4 posted on 06/11/2021 4:07:15 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: 11th_VA

PICTURES PLEASE! I need to see who DESPISES me because GOD made me white!


5 posted on 06/11/2021 4:08:26 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: 11th_VA

For someone who was growing up in a city where she said she was ostracized and teased, called racial slurs, spat on, and faced physical threats of violence she seemed to do okay for herself, at least until she slipped up. Why is it you never hear from victimized plumbers or trash collectors or factory workers? It seems that only people with degrees from Ivy League schools making big bucks are oppressed.


6 posted on 06/11/2021 4:09:22 AM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
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To: 11th_VA

Who sent the texts to the media?


7 posted on 06/11/2021 4:09:36 AM PDT by Tax-chick (I found that yelling at my screen did not effect the change I sought.)
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To: mewzilla

And on an MA related note...

https://www.bostonherald.com/2021/06/10/senate-moves-to-extend-pandemic-era-provisions-as-house-votes-to-make-mail-in-voting-permanent/


8 posted on 06/11/2021 4:10:04 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: 11th_VA

“I am being targeted as a Latina gender studies professor who teaches about racism, patriarchy, and oppression,” she wrote.

[IOW, she is an America-hating lesbian Communist.]


9 posted on 06/11/2021 4:10:05 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: 11th_VA
Self-hating white gurl


10 posted on 06/11/2021 4:11:04 AM PDT by MuttTheHoople ("The issue is never the issue. The issue always is the Revolution." Lenin)
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To: Travis McGee

Doesn’t she mean “Latinx”? She must have missed the memo that said Hispanics aren’t male or female anymore.


11 posted on 06/11/2021 4:12:50 AM PDT by Tax-chick (I found that yelling at my screen did not effect the change I sought.)
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To: Ann Archy

https://www.boston.com/news/education/2021/06/08/boston-school-committee-members-resign-over-racially-charged-texts-sent-during-october-meeting/


12 posted on 06/11/2021 4:13:49 AM PDT by raccoonradio
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But I am not ashamed

Behold the root cause of black hate toward whites.

13 posted on 06/11/2021 4:15:48 AM PDT by JonPreston (Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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To: Ann Archy

Photo here:

https://boston.cbslocal.com/2021/06/08/boston-schools-chair-alexandra-oliver-davila-resigns-over-racially-charged-texts/


14 posted on 06/11/2021 4:20:30 AM PDT by toldyou (Even if the voices aren't real, they have some pretty good ideas.)
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Oliver-Davila cast the comments in the context of her personal history growing up in a city where she said was ostracized and teased, called racial slurs, spat on, and faced physical threats of violence.

Blah Blah Blah. Seriously, whenever I hear a black/minority person go on like this they sounds to me like the teacher in those old Charlie Brown cartoons...blah blah blah...blah blah blah-blah

15 posted on 06/11/2021 4:35:04 AM PDT by Sir_Humphrey ( I wiIl not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered! My life is my own!)
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To: 11th_VA

Phony apology/crocodile tears...contains a qualifier:
“But I am not ashamed of the feelings from history that made me write those words.”


16 posted on 06/11/2021 4:50:27 AM PDT by AbolishCSEU (Amount of "child" support paid is inversely proportionate tfo mother's actual parenting of children)
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To: 11th_VA

In her resignation letter, Oliver-Davila apologized for the texts and the hurt they caused.

“I regret my personal texts, it was inappropriate,” she wrote. “But I am not ashamed of the feelings from history that made me write those words.”


That’s an apology ???


17 posted on 06/11/2021 4:51:31 AM PDT by bryan999
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To: bryan999

Memo to Oliver-Davila....GFYAD.

This is the similar voice of AOC. My comment, don’t like it here, move. Go to whatever racial Eden you can find. Try Rowanda.


18 posted on 06/11/2021 4:58:12 AM PDT by Mouton (The enemy of the people is the media.)
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To: Travis McGee

Playing the victim card right till the end.

I’m so sick of these people.

L


19 posted on 06/11/2021 5:06:37 AM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is. )
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To: 11th_VA

Blacks are the worst racists in America.


20 posted on 06/11/2021 5:11:48 AM PDT by bray (Hating Whites is racist)
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